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3 giorni fa · Raymond Asquith, now 3rd Earl of Oxford and Asquith, was the MI6 officer behind the wheel. “I wasn’t excited. I was bloody frightened, actually,” he said.
2 giorni fa · Even then, all might have been lost but for the quick-thinking wife of diplomat Raymond Asquith, Viscount Asquith and MI6 station commander in Moscow at the time. By changing their baby’s dirty nappy on the boot, she successfully threw border officials and sniffer dogs off the scent – by now quite unpleasant after being on the run – of Gordievsky.
6 giorni fa · It would later transpire that Aldrich Ames, a CIA agent secretly informing the Soviets, had identified Gordievsky as a double agent. In Moscow, Raymond Asquith, now the 3rd Earl of Oxford and...
2 giorni fa · Operation Pimlico involved signalling via a Safeway carrier bag, a Harrods bag and a Mars bar; a car chase to shake off KGB officers; and a judicious nappy change that distracted sniffer dogs from the scent of Gordievsky hiding in the boot. Raymond Asquith, now 3rd Earl of Oxford and Asquith, was the MI6 officer behind the wheel.
2 mag 2024 · Victorian England’s Most Notorious Socialite. Brendan Da Costa. Posted: 2 May 2024 | Last updated: 2 May 2024. 1. She Was Scathing—And Doomed. Margot Asquith was the British socialite whose quick...
27 apr 2024 · Similarly, the frequent references to the deaths at the front of friends and acquaintances, culminating in that of Asquith’s eldest son Raymond in September 1916, is a reminder that those charged with the management of the war also had to cope with private tragedy.
Raymond Herbert Asquith (1878–1916) Edward Julian George Asquith, 2nd Earl of Oxford and Asquith (1916–2011) Raymond Benedict Bartholomew Michael Asquith, 3rd Earl of Oxford and Asquith (b. 1952) Representative peer in the House of Lords from 2014, replacing Lord Methuen.
